The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 167
When you kill a good whale you shall eat it, but do not give any of it to stingy people.
Who acts: you · What happens: kill, eat, not give · To what, where: good whale, plank, any, stingy people
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 kill | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 eat | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 whale | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whale | amod |
| 6 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kill | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 eat | aux |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 give | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 give | advmod |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 eat | conj |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 give | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 any | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 20 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 give | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | you | a good whale | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | shall | you | plank | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not give | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | any of plank | stingy people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent any=Theme to people=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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